2016 China's investment in the United States, Europe and Australia have hit a new high, Chinese enterprises overseas investment growth rate of up to 44.1%, this trend will continue until the year 2017?
In February 9th, the Ministry of commerce routine press conference, the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Sun Jiwen expects China's foreign direct investment in 2017 will show a steady slowdown, slow to good trend. However, Chinese companies need to pay attention to the risks and uncertainties of foreign investment.
In 2016, 53 countries along the line of the "The Belt and Road" China direct investment of $14 billion 530 million, China in project contracting as the forerunner, supported by financial services, in the "The Belt and Road along the construction of a number of parks and free trade area, and strive to achieve more early harvest, it will become an important direction of Chinese overseas investment.
Foreign investment principles remain unchanged
According to the Ministry of commerce data, in 2016, China's domestic investors in 164 countries and regions of the world's total of 7961 overseas enterprises to invest $1 trillion and 129 billion 920 million, equivalent to $170 billion 110 million, an increase of 44.1%.
February 9th Ministry of Commerce press conference, spokesman Sun Jiwen said that in 2016 China's rapid growth in foreign investment, the national economy and industrial restructuring and upgrading play a positive role. At the same time, the recent international market, especially the increasing uncertainties of the financial market, economic policy in some countries increased the uncertainty, some developed countries to China, especially to increase the barriers limiting the investment of state-owned enterprises, which increases the risk of Chinese enterprises and the uncertainty of investment.
Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said in an interview with the twenty-first Century economic news reporter, the barriers are mainly concentrated in the field of mergers and acquisitions on the high-end projects. Different from the creation of green investment, mergers and acquisitions of Chinese enterprises are mostly developed high-end manufacturing, high-tech projects, such as the security of the larger resistance to review.
2016 full year, China's foreign investment in the implementation of mergers and acquisitions of 742 projects, the actual transaction amount of $107 billion 200 million. One of the manufacturing, information transmission, software and information technology services industry mergers and acquisitions since the implementation of the project 197 and 109, accounting for the total number of foreign mergers and acquisitions in China and 14.7% of the total of 26.6%.
At the same time, the United States Foreign Investment Committee, the German Ministry of economic affairs and other institutions to set up a number of obstacles to China's investment mergers and acquisitions.
"Developed countries will be more focused on China's state-owned enterprises, especially in the competitive field." Bai Ming pointed out that enterprises in the field of foreign investment in the field of high-tech mergers and acquisitions must pay attention to the risk of access to investment protectionism. To emphasize the principle that you do not allow me to enter, you lose, and set the terms in the initial negotiations, so as to maximize the initiative.
Looking forward to China's foreign investment in 2017, Sun Jiwen said that in 2017 the world economic recovery is weak, China's foreign direct investment is expected to show a steady slowdown in the slow to the good trend.
"We will be in accordance with the main body of the enterprise, market operation, international practice, the principle of government guidance to support the domestic ability, qualified enterprises, to carry out the real compliance of foreign investment activities." Sun Jiwen said.
It is worth noting that, by the end of last year, the NDRC, the Ministry of Commerce, the people's Bank of China, the foreign exchange bureau of the four departments will jointly strengthen the position of foreign investment supervision, analysts said the policy will further tighten foreign investment.
Foreign Investment Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce Deputy Director Hao Hongmei told reporters in twenty-first Century economic report, the basic principles concerning the regulation of foreign investment level did not change, the so-called "tightening" focus on risk management and financial risk control project.
"To strengthen the supervision of non rational investment in the operation of the risk, mainly in real estate, hotels, cultural and entertainment fields, some of the irrational foreign investment, as well as a large number of non main industry investment trends. Chinese enterprises have less experience in multinational management, and the Ministry of Commerce and other departments to strengthen supervision on the project is mainly to control business risk, but this is not the same as capital controls."
Hao Hongmei said, by the central bank and strengthen the supervision of safe mainly in order to curb short-term speculative capital flows, financial risk control. Under the conditions of open economy, capital outflow can not be completely eliminated. The key to the regulation is to prevent the outflow of capital and the adverse impact of international capital, boost investor confidence in China's economic growth.
Sun Jiwen said at the press conference, will improve the foreign investment in the long-term and short-term regulation system construction by combining risk prevention in promoting investment facilitation, improve and regulate market order, to further optimize the direction of foreign investment.
"The Belt and Road" investment of $14 billion 500 million
"Belt and Road Initiative along Chinese is an important direction of overseas investment. Sun Jiwen said at the press conference, 2016 China along the line of the "The Belt and Road" 53 countries direct investment of US $14 billion 530 million, accounted for 8.5% of the total.
Hao Hongmei said, "since 2013 Belt and Road Initiative" initiative, Chinese foreign investment significantly accelerated the pace of entering the stage of rapid development of foreign direct investment, but the stock of foreign direct investment China is only the United States 1/10, Germany 1/3.
"Project contracting and construction projects related to Belt and Road Initiative" along with most of the investment China, some analysts worry these items may not be realized gains.
Sun Jiwen, 2016, Chinese in "foreign contracted projects The Belt and Road along the new contract amount of $126 billion 30 million, which accounted for 51.6% of China's new contract amount of foreign contracted projects; the completion of the business
